Two films. Two sound systems. One evening exploring what happens when technology becomes ritual, and machines become the medium of devotion. This event centres the apparatus: the speaker stack, the camera, the signal chain — instruments of extreme and intimate expression.
Doors 7pm. Screening starts sharply after opening.
Tickets £10.40-£15.40 Sliding Scale
BASS BOSS / KOI HAIN?! A double screening, live demonstration & conversation
Two films. Two sound systems. One evening exploring what happens when technology becomes ritual, and machines become the medium of devotion. This event centres the apparatus: the speaker stack, the camera, the signal chain — instruments of extreme and intimate expression. The evening opens with a live demonstration of Koi Hain?!, a work in which camera-tracked visuals and spatialized sound become tools for tracing the pursuit of transcendence — presented here in stereo. The film follows a man offering tears to a river — a gesture of surrender and transcendence that implicates the viewer in its central question: is anybody there? Is anybody watching? In the age of the surveillant camera, Koi Hain?! asks who — or what — is truly seen. Then: Bass Boss. Director Rana Ghose travels to rural West Bengal to meet DJ Khobir, the singular architect of Dek Bass — a form of extreme low frequency deployment that emerged without precedent or reference, wholly from one person's imagination and one set of speakers. The technology here is the origin story. Overwhelming, fervently followed, and entirely its own, Dek Bass is a system culture with no lineage — only a source. The screenings are followed by a conversation between directors Rana Ghose and Nishant Shukla, before the evening closes with a live Dek Bass demonstration.
Programme
7:00pm: Screenings
8:15pm: Q&A with Nishant and Rana
8:45pm: Cassette "Dek" Demo (open to audience)
Rana Ghose is a curator, economist, writer, and filmmaker. He steers REProduce Artists, a collective producing interventions in non-traditional spaces through music and video in modular, sequential plays. He is currently building REProduce Live, a streaming platform rooted in his REProduce Listening Room series. Based between New Delhi and Halifax.
Nishant Shukla is a London-based artist working across photography, film, and sound. He is founder and director of Lake, an artist-run curatorial platform in Deptford focused on sound-led and listening-based practices.